Seismos could run in the Irish St Leger before he travels to Australia for the Melbourne Cup.
The six-year-old, owned by Australian Thoroughbred Bloodstock, will either run in St Leger at the Curragh on September 14 or go into quarantine a day earlier and have a race in Melbourne before the Cup.
“He’s in good form. We’re very happy with him and is probably in the best form he’s been in so far. He looks great,” trainer Marco Botti said.
“We haven’t decided whether he will go into quarantine for the first shipment to Australia or whether we run him in the Irish St Leger.
“I think we will decide next week which way we go, but the plan is for him to take his chance in the Melbourne Cup.
“It’s just whether he is going to have one more run over here and then just go for the Melbourne Cup or have two races down there instead.
“The first quarantine starts on September 13.
“The Irish Leger is the day after so if he goes for that race he will have to go on the second flight and go into quarantine two weeks later.”
Last year’s Mackinnon Stakes winner Side Glance is enjoying a short rest at home before he travels to Melbourne for a possible Cox Plate start.
The globetrotting seven-year-old is back at Andrew Balding’s stables after finishing third in the Arlington Million in Chicago earlier this month.
“He’s just having a little break then he’s due to go into quarantine for Australia,” Balding said.
“Targets are possibly the Cox Plate, possibly the Mackinnon Stakes again, and he’s also got a Caulfield Cup entry.
